TY  - BOOK
AU  - Guare,Richard
AU  - Dawson,Peg
AU  - Guare,Colin
TI  - Smart but scattered teens: the "executive skills" program for helping teens reach their potential 
SN  - 9781609182298
AV  - HQ799.15 .G83 2013
U1  - 306.874 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Guilford Press
KW  - Parent and teenager
KW  - Executive ability in adolescence
KW  - Self-control in adolescence
KW  - Attention in adolescence
KW  - Parenting
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-282) and index; Introduction -- Executive skills and the teen brain -- Identifying your teen's executive skill strengths and weaknesses -- Assessing your own executive skills and parenting style -- Ten principles for improving your teen's executive skills -- Motivating your teen to use executive skills -- Modifying the environment -- Teaching executive skills -- Advance organizer -- Enhancing response inhibition -- Strengthening working memory -- Increasing emotional control -- Boosting flexibility -- Building sustained attention -- Teaching task initiation -- Promoting planning and prioritizing -- Fostering organization -- Improving time management -- Encouraging goal-directed persistence -- Cultivating metacognition -- Coaching -- Transitions
N2  - Uses key principles from the business world to help teens get organized, stay focused, and control their impulses
ER  -